Friday, March 14, 2008

Major Hillary donor with ties to sweatshops and Abramoff?...

leveymg writes for DailyKOS:

Greenberg Traurig (GT), a major GOP partisan law and lobbying shop, has been indicted on federal charges in the Marianas Islands sweatshop case. The firm employed notorious political fixer Jack Abramoff.

Abramoff’s firm has a long history as a conduit for illegal foreign campaign contributions. GT were Bush's Campaign Lawyers during the 2000 Florida Recount, and is now a major donor to HRC's presidential campaign, according to the lastest FEC data.

Greenberg Traurig and the Tan Family, who are the center of the Saipan sweatshop and prostitution scandal, have both made large HRC campaign contributions.

In a odd coincidence, GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain chaired the Senate Committee which investigated Abramoff. As dengre has informed us, McCain's committee continues to withhold all but 8000 pages of the three-quarter of a million documents turned over to it.

This has the makings of a major presidential campaign blowup, if HRC gets the nomination.


(Full Article)

As must read!

2 comments:

Christopher said...

Why does this not surprise me?

Most excellent post. Thank you.

Big Yellow Forehead said...

IF she gets the nom, I'm sure we'll see more blowups than this,and a McCain victory following shortly thereafter.